Family members threatened at holiday dinner in Clinton

A Thanksgiving dinner at a home in Clinton reportedly ended with a family member threatening other family members with a gun.

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By Beverly Majors

Oakridger - Oak Ridge, TN

By Beverly Majors

Posted Nov. 28, 2012 at 2:00 PM

By Beverly Majors
Posted Nov. 28, 2012 at 2:00 PM

Clinton, Tenn.

A Thanksgiving dinner at a home in Clinton reportedly ended with a family member threatening other family members with a gun.

Anderson County Sheriff's Department deputies were called to a home on Rhea Lane in Clinton when a man and his daughter, both of Andersonville, reported his brother and her uncle pointed a pistol at them.

The 53-year-old suspect hasn’t yet been charged in the case. He lives at the Rhea Lane home with his mother, reports said.

According to the complainants, the suspect began shouting at his 19-year-old niece and had threatened her with the pistol. She told deputies her uncle said he wanted to talk to her and threatened to shoot her in the hand or the foot.

She said he also raised his hand as if to hit her, reports said.

Her 46-year-old father, the suspect's brother, confronted the suspect when he arrived at the home a short time later and was also threatened, reports said.

The brother reportedly asked what was going on, which prompted the suspect to point the pistol at him and told him to "take it outside." The complainant told deputies that although he was afraid his brother would shoot him, he was more afraid for his family.

He reportedly tried to calm his brother but his brother refused to put the gun down until his brother's girlfriend came into the room.

He dropped the gun on the bed.

When the complainant told his brother he had called 911, he left the house.